What happens when an athlete has a life-changing accident?
Saffron Cresswell was a promising eventer before a fall left her paralysed. Just eight months after first sitting in a canoe, she is heading to the Worlds.
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"I came home and fundamentally the next day, both my parents went out the door and went to work."
— Saffron Cresswell , Athlete
"[What I miss] is literally just having the horse on the yard, to just go and like say 'hello' to them over the stable."
— Saffron Cresswell , Athlete
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Saffron Cresswell was a promising eventer before a fall left her paralysed. Just eight months after first sitting in a canoe, she is heading to the Worlds.
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